Your task in the second part of this unit is to create a teaching and learning space within a wiki like environment.
For this part of the unit you can choose to use Wikispaces, (the space I am using here), pbWorks, Weebly, Wix or Google Sites to develop a Teaching and Learning Space. Wikispaces and pbworks are alternative wiki providers, Weebly and Wix are website builders and Google Sites, which because Google Apps For Education is becoming quite popular is an option that numerous schools are using with students and staff to create websites.
In terms of ease of use, Weebly and Wix are arguably the simplest whilst Google Sites has a slightly trickier interface. Wikispaces and pbworks are on a par with Google Sites though to get the best out of Wikispaces you do need to learn a little about the wikitext that it is built on. The big drawbacks with Weebly and Wix however are that their free service can be limiting in the amount of space and functionality you get.
The focus of your space in this second section of the unit is teaching and learning developed around a theme of your choice. You should populate your space with artefacts that you have created using some of the content and skills you have learned in the first part of the unit. You might also like to include any others content or skills and "show off" tools, content or ideas that we haven't yet covered. I should re-iterate that he emphasis for this task is very much on consolidating and practicing the skills covered throughout the unit. In other words I want you to use images, audio, slideshows, video and any other variations as creatively as you can to develop a space that students or other teacher might use.
Note if you have to develop a similar space for another unit you can negotiate with me to create this EST430 space to serve multiple needs, (please ask ASAP if you need further advice).
To give you an idea of the expectations for your space, have a look through these Teaching and Learning Space examples to check out some ways in which other EST430 students have responded to this task over the last two years.
Note that I will be doing your final assessment according to the Teaching and Learning Space Assessment Rubric in the Assessment Rubric with a particular emphasis on content that you have created and embedded in the space
For this part of the unit you can choose to use Wikispaces, (the space I am using here), pbWorks, Weebly, Wix or Google Sites to develop a Teaching and Learning Space. Wikispaces and pbworks are alternative wiki providers, Weebly and Wix are website builders and Google Sites, which because Google Apps For Education is becoming quite popular is an option that numerous schools are using with students and staff to create websites.
In terms of ease of use, Weebly and Wix are arguably the simplest whilst Google Sites has a slightly trickier interface. Wikispaces and pbworks are on a par with Google Sites though to get the best out of Wikispaces you do need to learn a little about the wikitext that it is built on. The big drawbacks with Weebly and Wix however are that their free service can be limiting in the amount of space and functionality you get.
The focus of your space in this second section of the unit is teaching and learning developed around a theme of your choice. You should populate your space with artefacts that you have created using some of the content and skills you have learned in the first part of the unit. You might also like to include any others content or skills and "show off" tools, content or ideas that we haven't yet covered. I should re-iterate that he emphasis for this task is very much on consolidating and practicing the skills covered throughout the unit. In other words I want you to use images, audio, slideshows, video and any other variations as creatively as you can to develop a space that students or other teacher might use.
Note if you have to develop a similar space for another unit you can negotiate with me to create this EST430 space to serve multiple needs, (please ask ASAP if you need further advice).
To give you an idea of the expectations for your space, have a look through these Teaching and Learning Space examples to check out some ways in which other EST430 students have responded to this task over the last two years.
Note that I will be doing your final assessment according to the Teaching and Learning Space Assessment Rubric in the Assessment Rubric with a particular emphasis on content that you have created and embedded in the space